A firefighter was killed when the rubber dinghy he was riding on capsized during severe flooding, and at least two people are missing in south Germany as the region braces for more rainstorms.

The Elbe is expected to flood on Sunday due to heavy rain forecast for the neighboring Czech Republic. The German state of ...

Amid the despair and the mounting death toll in Germany and Belgium are questions about how such a disaster could have happened. The flooding followed record rainfall in parts of western Europe ...

The red areas on the map below show where there has been flooding in recent days. In Germany, the states of Rhineland-Palatinate and North Rhine-Westphalia have been worst hit. In Belgium ...

Short, heavy rainfall is typical of the Mediterranean, but nothing is typical about what has been happening there recently.

Global warming has pushed the global water cycle into new climate extremes, including massive floods, tropical cyclones, flash floods and prolonged droughts, according to the latest edition of the ...

Natural disasters such as hurricanes and floods caused losses totalling $320 billion worldwide in 2024, according to a report from German reinsurance giant Munich Re published on Thursday. The losses ...